“[ . . . ] Goods also exhibit a similar fluctuation because they bring harm to many people: before now men have been undone by their riches, and others by their courage. We must be content, then, in speaking about such things and setting out from such things to indicate the truth roughly and in outline, and in speaking about things which hold only for the most part and setting out from such things to reach conclusions of that kind. In the same spirit, therefore, should each of our statements be received; for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits: it is evidently similar to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand demonstrations from a rhetorician.”

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Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses on upenn.edu
The handiest of references to the Gods of Ancient Mesopotamia anywhere on the internet, hosted by the University of Penn State. It provides a basic description of each deity and Their cult(s), along with links to suggested reading and online corpus.

Egypt at the Manchester Museum
Provides updates on the redevelopment, information on objects, events, behind the scenes curatorial work, Museum policies that affect the Egyptian and Sudanese material, teaching and research links with the University.